My book club is in the throes of deciding which books to select
to read next year. We meet all twelve months of the year so we
need 12 books.
Your mission, “should you choose to accept it”, will be to choose
the 12 books YOU would select . . . the members have chipped in
with suggestions and we have a hearty list of 51 to choose from.
Which ones would you pick?
So that this doesn’t get too unwieldy, I’ll list 17 books each time.
If you choose 4 from each post, then we’ll have 12, won’t we.
I realize you might not be familiar with some—but go ahead and
humor me, play the game. If nothing else, maybe it will remind
you of a book you’ve been meaning to read.
List # 1
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier
and Clay Michael Chabon
American Rust Philipp Meyer
The Appeal John Grisham
The Bluest Eye: a Novel Toni Morrison
Built to Last Jim Collins
Caleb’s Crossing Geraldine Brooks
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Cold Mountain Charles Frazier
The Confessions of St. Augustine St. Augustine
Crow Lake Mary Lawson
A Cure to Die For Stephen G Mitchell
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson*
The Dress Lodger Sheri Holman
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
*No relation to Mary Lawson above . . .
OK, what if you HAD to choose 4?
Hm… We read Michael Chabon’s memoir on fatherhood and found it really good.
Thanks for comment—I’ll consider that choice.